Zach Reinhardt – Master 3D Sculpting in Blender

Do you want to create 3D sculptures you can be proud of?

Are free Blender sculpting tutorials on YouTube only giving you a basic understanding, but they don’t teach you all the steps necessary to create stunning, high-quality sculptures?

That’s why we created this extensive Blender course, that teaches you all important sculpting workflows using only free tools.

Learn in a step by step sculpting project how to bring a cute 3D creature to life, by sculpting from references, adding color and rendering a turntable animation.

So, pick up your graphics tablet (a mouse will do too, but it’s much less fun) and start your sculpting journey.

What You’ll Learn In Master 3D Sculpting in Blender?

Part 1 – Sculpting Fundamentals

• Chapter 1 & 2 – Getting Started & Fundamentals

In the first two chapters, you will make your very first steps into the sculpt mode of Blender. You will learn about all important tools and workflows, and go through simple exercises.

• Chapter 3 – Base Meshes

Learn different workflows on how to create your base meshes, which are the foundation to start the sculpting process.

Part 2 – Cute Creature

• Chapter 4 – Cute Creature Base Sculpting

In this chapter, we use a 2D concept drawing as reference, build a proper base mesh and start sculpting, by adding medium level details.

• Chapter 5 – Cute Creature Retopology

Learn all important workflows about retopologizing your sculptings, by creating a mesh with a good topology, based on the shape of your sculpting. This retopology mesh can then be used to create high-resolution details in the following chapter.

• Chapter 6 – Cute Creature Details

Learn how to sculpt high-resolution details, like the details on the head and the fur. You will also discover the cloth tools in Blender’s sculpt mode, which we will use to create a backpack.

• Chapter 7 – Cute Creature Presentation

Learn all you need to know about making your sculpting look pretty. We will create a flexible clay shader that you can put on any sculpting. We will pose the create and color it with the Sculpt Vertex Colors and procedural shading methods. In the end, we will light it and render out still images and a turntable animation of the creature.

Part 3 – Epic Creature

• Chapter 8 – Epic Creature Base Sculpting

Learn a creative sculpting workflow where we start with a simple sphere and then step by step build the base sculpting of the creature out of it. We will also learn how to use anatomy references to make the different body parts look more realistic.

• Chapter 9 – Epic Creature Details

Learn how to add fine details to the creature using various techniques. We will use the default sculpting tools, masking techniques but also brush textures to add high resolution details like scales and skin. Additionally, you will learn how to create your own custom brush textures from 3D data and 2D photos.

• Chapter 10 – Epic Creature Shading

Learn how to texture the creature from scratch. We will UV unwrap the model, bake different texture maps, texture paint the base color and add fine details to the skin in the shader editor. Additionally, we will create semi-realistic eyes for the creature.

• Chapter 11 – Epic Creature Rigging

Learn how to create a fully-featured rig for the creature, to be able to easily pose and animate it. For this, we will use the free Rigify add-on, which simplifies the process a lot, by offering different rig-templates, which we can adjust to our needs. Afterward, we generate all controller bones with a single click. Additionally, we will learn how to bake all materials of the creature into simple texture maps.

• Chapter 12 – Epic Creature Rendering

Learn how to create a beautiful still render of your sculpture. For this we will set up the camera, give the creature a majestic pose, create a simple environment with pre-made 3D assets, create a moody light setup and fine-tune everything in the compositor.

• Chapter 13 – Epic Creature Animation

Learn how to bring your sculpted creature to life by creating a looping animation. For this we animate the camera, the environment and the creature. By adding an element of surprise to the scene, we make it more fun and engaging. Additionally, you will learn how to fine tune your render and compositing settings for faster rendering, and render out a high-quality video of your animation.

Part 4 – Brushes & Sculpting Settings

We are currently finishing up this final part of the course, which will give a detailed explanation of all the sculpting settings, tools and brushes.

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